As part of the 350th anniversary celebrations of the Catholic Diocese in Quebec City, world-renowned concert organist Olivier Latry will give a performance at the basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec on Saturday, November 2, 2024. This unique event is presented by the Diocese of Quebec, in collaboration with the Canadian International Organ Competition, and with the support of Les Amis de l’orgue de Québec.
Olivier Latry is one of the titular organists of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, and taught organ at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1995 to 2024. He will perform works by his illustrious predecessors at Notre-Dame de Paris, Louis Vierne and Pierre Cochereau, alongside excerpts from Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals and music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean-François Dandrieu, Alexandre Guilmant, Eugène Gigout and Thierry Pallesco.
This concert creates a link between “two Notre-Dames”. It will take place shortly before the closing celebration of the 350th anniversary of the Diocèse de Québec on December 8, 2024 at the basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec; and this same date (the Feast of the Immaculate Conception) was chosen for the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Location: Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec (Québec City)
Date/Time: Saturday, November 2, at 7:30 PM
Please note: the nearest public parking lot is at Hôtel de ville, across from the cathedral.
The full 350th-anniversary program is available at: Fetes350.ca